“Oct 7 2023”

When students and professors applaud murderers and rapists as academic administrators meekly look on, as has been the case in Canada ever since Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attacks on Israel, it’s clear that something is wrong in the academy.

Universities need to get serious again — a characteristic that was abandoned by adopting the ideologies of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), identitarianism, decolonization and anti-racism. Instead of pursuing free inquiry and judging people for what they do, not what they look like, post-secondary institutions now pursue any system of thought that attempts to redistribute benefits and privileges from “oppressors” to the “oppressed.”

Events since October 7 have made clear that the goal of Western advocates for the Palestinians is not a nonviolent adjustment of borders but a Palestine without Jews.

For the last two decades, solidarity with Palestinians in the West has been expressed largely through the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement. BDS has described itself as a call from “Palestinian civil society” for allies in other countries to reduce commerce with Israel, along the lines of the international boycott to end apartheid in South Africa in the 1980s.

Far-left billionaire kingmaker George Soros has funneled more than $15 million since 2016 to groups behind this month’s pro-Palestine protests, where demonstrators openly cheered Hamas militants’ craven terrorist attacks on Israel.

A Post examination of Open Society Foundations records shows Soros’ grant-making network gave $13.7 million of the money through Tides Center, a deep-pocketed lefty advocacy group that sponsors several nonprofits who’ve justified Hamas’ bloody attacks while claiming Palestinians obsessed with the eradication of the Jewish state are the real victims

It is, perhaps, too early to have a full picture of what led to the recent Hamas attack on Israeli villages close to Gaza.

One thing, however, is certain: the attack came when and where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Cabinet least expected.

But why? One answer adopted by Netanyahu’s team is “a failure of intelligence services”.

However, that answer, even if it contains a grain of truth, could not divert attention from a bigger failure: the Israeli leaders’ inability to correctly analyze the intelligence at their disposal and, and having bought into what looks like a ruse by Hamas, to imagine a worst-case scenario.

Several thousands in Toronto outside the U.S. Consulate calling for a ceasefire and rallying for Palestine. pic.twitter.com/D0c1lJJQJF

— Ahmar Khan (@AhmarSKhan) October 29, 2023

Outside the US consulate, University and Armory, Toronto. Now.

Palestine will be free. pic.twitter.com/qmMxZZrF8a

— Doug Allan (@Leftwords) October 29, 2023

Rabbi attending mass rally for Palestine in Toronto, Canada, on October 21, 2023 pic.twitter.com/osV0pZyynu

— Neturei Karta (@NetureiKarta) October 23, 2023

I hate to disappoint them but Israel could not care less about their demo.

Even if they change Junior’s mind and he starts advocating for a ceasefire Israel will just swat him away.

Using dogs, ‘sponge bombs’ and search-and-destroy teams, Israel’s ground invasion depends on clearing the underground network, which could be as long as 300 miles

The Israel-Gaza war may be won, or lost, underground.

At the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, Palestinian doctors are relying on a dwindling supply of electricity to keep patients alive: 55 prematurely born babies are depending on generators for their survival, according to one doctor quoted by Reuters last week.

Yet beneath their feet Israel alleges that Hamas has stockpiled, for its own aims, enough fuel to power the generators of Gaza’s largest hospital and keep the incubators running.

As the vast majority of westerners unite to support Israel in the aftermath of Hamas’s horrific terrorist attack, a poll by Harvard University and Harris Insights and Analytics shows a disturbing split among generational lines. The poll found nearly a third of Americans aged 18 to 24 think the statement, “Hamas terrorists killed 1,200 Israeli civilians by shooting them, raping and beheading people including whole families, kids and babies,” is false.

Thousands of people broke into aid warehouses in Gaza to take food and “basic survival items”, a UN agency said on Sunday, in a mark of growing desperation and the breakdown of public order in the enclave.

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA, said its warehouses and distribution centres were looted by people grabbing flour and “basic survival items”.

UNRWA provides services to hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza. Its schools across the territory have been transformed into packed shelters housing Palestinians displaced by the conflict. Israel has allowed only a small trickle of aid to enter from Egypt, some of which was stored in one of the warehouses that was broken into, the agency said.

Hamas is just fine thank you. – As Gazans Scrounge for Food and Water, Hamas Sits on a Rich Trove of Supplies

The United Nations General Assembly once again displayed its hatred of Israel and its anti-Semitism in passing a resolution Friday calling “for an immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce, leading to a cessation of hostilities” in the Mideast.

Thousands of demonstrators join banned pro-Palestinian march in Paris

In France it is claimed over 1 million people were demonstrating in support for Palestine. pic.twitter.com/3E3f3NazCT

— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) October 29, 2023

Very little news coverage of the Paris march to date.

h/t Mauser

Meanwhile in the restive backwater of Toronto: Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters take over downtown Toronto streets

A statement from a group of Jews has blasted Toronto Metropolitan University for its lack of action to a letter signed by law students that allegedly promotes “violence against Israel and the Jewish people.”

The statement was sent to TMU’s Dean Donna Young and President Mohamed Lachemi.

Mohamed? Nuff said.

“You’ve probably heard by now if you’re a regular reader that the immediate claims that 500 or more people were killed in the Gaza hospital explosion last week has not held up to scrutiny. Hamas eventually settled on the figure 471 but western estimates have ranged from 100-300 or, from a separate estimate, maybe closer to 50.”